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Freeman. dan, what is behind the gingrich surge? >> one of the things that is behind it, paul, there was always structural weaknesses in the come any campaign. he was running a campaign that was going to put one foot in the center. he needed to win independent voters. part of his appeal has been for them and the other has been the conservative camp. the problem is he had to run an early primary, iowa, new hampshire, south carolina and florida, these are conservative voters. he has been lucky so far, most of his opponents were basically pretty weak. i think we have the parable of the tortoise a...

Freeman. dan, what is behind the gingrich surge? >> one of the things that is behind it, paul, there was always structural weaknesses in the come any campaign. he was running a campaign that was going to put one foot in the center. he needed to win independent voters. part of his appeal has been for them and the other has been the conservative camp. the problem is he had to run an early primary, iowa, new hampshire, south carolina and florida, these are conservative voters. he has been lucky so far, most of his opponents were basically pretty weak. i think we have the parable of the tortoise a...